· Private foundation
Mills Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA COUNTY INC | $47,500 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $15,000 |
| GRACE PLACE | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN INC | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| COLLIER RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $4,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND | $2,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +53%- UWUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +35%
- YHYOUTH HAVEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- VOVILLAGE OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +32%- CCCAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The clinic's mission is to support the health care of uninsured and low-income residents of waukesha county. the clinic provides access to free or discounted services and medications.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Stabilizing lives by providing supportive programs and access to community resources for individuals and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collier Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sojourner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Four-Four Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mills Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.